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Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.
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Lock and I hope we don't see you back this way.
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All right, folks, let's load up.
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You ain't changed much, Virgil.
You're getting 10,000.
Just because I didn't get caught along with you
don't mean we shouldn't share equal.
I paid eight years for every dollar I got hidden.
You better say quick 10,000 satisfies you.
I've done twice that much.
I didn't say I wouldn't take it.
They need me in the rocks east of my farm,
a couple hours after sundown.
Stay out of sight of my wife and boys.
You saying they didn't them youngins still figure you innocent?
I'll kill you in a minute, Earl.
Make dot city by noon.
You're ready, mister.
Were you a gunfighter, mister?
Chad Richard.
I'm sorry.
He didn't mean it.
He's just a boy.
Take it away.
Hey!
He's making sure that this is the first rate building
we're on for.
I'm glad to hear that.
I'll tell you another thing, too.
I've never seen him more particular about every little
thing he's doing on this town.
Well, I suppose now you're going to want more than the 20
cents an hour we've agreed on already.
Well, you talk like my foot's asleep.
A Huygens word is just as good as yours any day,
and this here is going to be a job that you'll be proud of,
and that's my undying guarantee.
Well, that's good.
It ain't going to be like that other sloppy job that was dead.
Just a minute.
Let me tell you something about that other sloppy job that
was dead I done, or...
Good morning, Miss Stanley.
You're coming home early today, Pestis.
You know, I had just plumb forgot this was a day.
It's coming in early, Ma.
You boys mind your manners.
Shake your Pa's hand, Propp.
Yes, Ma.
Good morning.
Pa?
Good morning, sir.
Where's the money, Virgil?
Let's make this a real homecoming celebration.
You speak up on where you buried that $40,000,
and I'll buy the cake and candles.
I'm remembering you.
You're the one that lied in that courtroom.
You're the one that lied in that courtroom.
I'm not lying.
I'm not lying.
I'm not lying.
I'm not lying.
I'm remembering you.
You're the one that lied in that courtroom.
But all I have to do is railroad innocent people into prison.
The only good night's sleep you'll ever get is the time you give up that money.
Leave my Pa alone!
Virgil!
Give me an excuse.
Rudman, put the gun out.
Ada.
Marshal, this is my husband.
Marshal?
I do.
Your family's been looking forward to getting you back.
Why don't you take a moment?
Thank you, Marshal.
Jack?
Well, he finally got here.
I figured.
You ought to give it up.
You got no proof.
Him and his partner were nothing but hill squatters.
Jamming guns in my belly.
Burlap, you're a real man.
Jamming guns in my belly.
Burlap sacks over their heads.
Like I couldn't smell the stink of that shack town they lived in.
Jack Redman.
Famous range detective.
Taken by some amateur bandits.
I'll have him dreaming of me so long as he has a single dollar of that money.
You know, I, um...
I always felt a sense of pity for Ada and her husband.
I think you deserve it more, Jack.
There's never any water here before.
There were some men from town built a dam for us.
It's all so changed.
A lot of work went into it, Virgil.
I cut down a quarter section of trees, Pa.
You did not, neither.
Trees?
Well, Kurt helped some.
I'd done as much as you.
You cut down trees?
We couldn't clear all the stumps, though.
Planted around a lot of them.
And then a couple of years back we added the barn.
Some people from Dodge City helped with that.
You were right to pick this land, Virgil.
It's made a good farm.
Ada, wasn't there a shelf of stone near a gully nearby here?
No.
Not that I remember, Virgil.
Could have been washed away in the flood three years back.
Yeah, it cut right through here.
Almost washed us away.
The place?
You like it, Pa?
One, two, three, four, five.
It's home, Virgil.
You did proud, Ada.
It's what we always hoped to have.
Thank you for saying that.
It's here because of you.
No matter how bad things got in Shacktown,
we always said we'd have our farm.
You remember?
We got our farm and our boys and each other.
All those years of fixing up this place and being alone.
It was for us.
I did it for the day you'd come home to stay.
And you were alone, too, Virgil.
You're a good woman, Ada.
It's only the wind.
That place cut out all sounds of living.
No, it was a funny thing.
The first night I rode through here,
the night that I decided this would be a good section of land
to file on a herd that sound.
There was a tree and that funny sound coming from it.
What kind of sound?
Well, it was dark.
I couldn't see much but the tree,
but the wind blowing through it,
and I guess you'd say it was a whispering sound.
Was it a sad sound?
Yeah, I guess you could call it that.
There's no sadness here.
Not anymore.
Now that my man's home to stay.
To stay.
I'll make it up to you.
All we've lost, you'll see.
What we've lost is gone.
Our whole life's ahead of us now.
I'm getting tired, Bert.
I'll be indirectly.
Good to have you home.
Will you?
I was waiting for you out by the rocks like you said.
You never did come.
I haven't got it.
You ain't got it?
I don't remember where I buried it.
Are you telling me that you can bury a 40-year-old
and forget where?
The land's changed.
There are gullies from the floods,
trees torn down, the fields plowed under,
and that.
Well, what kind of a place was it
where you buried that saddlebag?
Don't you fret where I buried it.
My only fret's getting a cut of it.
My only fret's getting a cut of my money.
I need time.
Well, you've got a month's time.
I'll come back, you have it for me.
You have it for me.
How come these here are just cheaper than they're made of?
Roy, how come the one of these is three cents a pound
and the other one's four cents a pound?
Oh, some of the others got mixed up with the uncoated, Thad.
But if you want to take the trouble picking over that cheaper cake,
you can save yourself a penny a pound.
Good way to save money is in here, Jimmy's coach.
Biggest jar of peaches Roy's got.
You mean the kind with the racket edges and the fixed syrup?
Yes, three of them.
Roy, this is my husband.
How do you do, sir?
Glad to know you.
What can I do for you?
We want two of the biggest jars of free-stone peaches you got.
Among a few other things.
I'd also like to settle my wife's account.
No hurry about that, Mr. Stanley.
Won't no sense keeping you waiting while I got it.
All right.
You'll be surprised to hear, Virgil,
that we have the serial numbers of most of that money.
I wouldn't think you'd have let him put his hands on your money, Mr. Stanley.
I don't mind.
I'm happy to hear that.
We'll get along better than I expected.
Need a good sharpening stone.
Got a good assortment right over here.
Hey, how's the stair building business?
Hello, moving along.
Hey, you two got the marshals here.
Is it true what's going around?
What truth?
About that buried money.
What money?
On Virgil Stanley's farm.
Now, where did you hear that?
Well, around.
Well, I'm surprised.
I'm surprised.
I'm surprised.
I'm surprised.
I'm surprised.
I'm surprised.
I'm surprised.
You hear that?
Well, around.
Well, I'm surprised at you, a grog man,
a terry and all backyard goss.
So it's only that.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Now, get on out of here.
Get.
Glad I'm out.
Now, I wonder if there is something to that money.
What?
Well, it never was found.
What?
You little scamp, I'd order it.
Well, never mind.
We've got a staircase to finish.
Now, come on.
Finish?
Not to say nothing about all the money we've been saving you.
Well, that's fine. How did that happen?
Well, we saved you a penny a pound on three pounds of nails
that we got from sorting out of a barrel that had been mixed up.
Three pounds? That's three cents.
How long did it take you?
Fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes?
Well, good heavens, I'm paying you twenty cents an hour.
That's five cents. Somewhere in there I lost two cents.
You think I ought to be happy about that?
Well, it's a good intention that counts.
Stop that!
Pa!
Who told you to chop down trees?
Ma, we thought this would be a good section for growing hay.
We figured we'd get started clearing it.
We're not cutting down any more trees.
But why, Pa?
Because I've got enough stumps to clear for a week to come.
But we've already cleared most of the stumps.
You cleared the stumps?
Most of the stumps.
We'll help you with the others, Pa.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
Come here.
It seems to me today's more a day for fishing instead of working.
Huh?
No, Pa. I think we should help you.
But we can all three go fishing.
Well, yeah, how about that?
No, no, no, not me. Not today.
But you all go along. I want you to.
Next time.
Next time I'll go along with you.
I promise. Go ahead.
Okay, Pa.
Guess it proves that nothing stays unchanged over the years.
Not me.
Not you.
Not even the land.
You're on my property, Redmond.
You tell me how you remember this spot, and I'll try to narrow it down for you.
What makes you think I haven't got that money already?
You've been out here watching maybe two hours a day.
Maybe I found that money when you weren't here.
Got it hit again.
Looking at bars for eight years gives a man patience.
Maybe I'm waiting another eight years before I spend that money.
You got that kind of time, Redmond?
You figure the minute I stop working, it'd mean I found that money?
And just about there you could walk in.
Well, just you and me here, Redmond, so I'll tell you, I already found that money.
Maybe I got it hit in the barangas.
Or maybe I sleep real close to it every night.
Where is it?
I'm gonna build you a bench alongside my fence.
A place where you can sit and watch me fix up my farm.
Hi, boys.
Hi, Marshall.
Well, looks like you got a little problem here.
Don't ever say Kurt doesn't get excited catching fish.
I ain't never yet eat one that got away.
Looks like this one almost got away.
This one flew away.
Thanks, Marshall.
Hey, Marshall, we caught a good mess.
How about coming over for supper?
Yeah, Marshall.
Well, I'd like two boys, but I gotta get back to town.
I was just gonna stop and say hello to you folks.
You're letting your pa do all the chores alone, now he's back?
Well, it seems like pa doesn't want us working with him, Marshall.
He likes to do everything himself.
We'll wait another eight years, Redmond.
You and me.
Where is it?
It'll be just like you serving prison time, Redmond.
Where is it?
Now, Redmond, get on your horse and get out of here.
He knows where the money is.
Now, Marshall, he told me.
If I ever catch you on this land again, I'll lock you up.
Rogel.
Leave me be.
I'm grateful, but leave me be.
Must have helped getting back the house.
No, no need.
Now, Redmond said you told him you had that money here.
That's all the excuse he needs.
He hounded me into prison, he hounded me all the while I was there,
and now he's doing the same thing here.
I'll take care of that part of it.
But I'll tell you something, Rogel.
If that money is here and you try to pass it,
I'll send you back to prison myself.
I'm sorry.
It's no matter.
He's right.
He's done.
Well, done to a point he could have killed you.
Take more than this.
In time, he'll let go.
And you're going to take the likes of this until then?
Pa?
That man beat me like...
He's scared of him, Pa?
Right.
You think that?
No, sir.
Is there anything else you'd like to ask?
No, sir.
Lebanese firewood for the stove in Milch County is feeding.
Get to it.
Rogel, they didn't mean nothing.
No matter if they did.
But they're young.
And they're proud.
I did something to their pride.
They love you, Rogel.
And I love you.
It hurts us to see you hurt.
There you go.
You're going to leave me, Pa?
Use it.
What are you doing here?
Use it.
Now you do what I tell you.
Tell me what?
Leave my husband alone.
I'm glad you left him alone eight years ago.
You leave him alone or I'll kill you.
What?
I mean it.
I believe you do.
There's been a sadness in our lives for a long time.
Until my husband come home.
Until my son's father come home.
But now that sadness is back and you've brought it.
You tell your husband I intend to...
I'll tell him nothing.
He doesn't know I'm here and he's not going to know.
The day he hands over that $40,000 will be the last time he'll see me.
He hasn't got that money.
I didn't come here to argue with you.
Or to plead with you.
Or to beg you.
A lot of women to be left alone for eight years.
Woman enough to kill you if you don't want to.
Woman enough to kill you if you don't leave us alone.
Too much woman for the likes of him.
I'm sorry.
I only want to hear you say, do you leave us alone?
No.
I said what I came to say Mr. Redmond.
And you remember it.
What are you doing up?
It's Pa.
He's out there.
Something's wrong Ma.
What do you mean?
I don't know.
He said he heard a whispering tree.
Then he just ran out there.
Like he was mad at something.
You boys go on to bed.
Go on.
Where's John?
I heard it.
Virgil.
But only when the wind's from the south.
That tree's here.
It's still here.
Virgil, what are you talking about?
Shack town squatters is all we worth Ada.
But not no more.
No.
All those years in prison are paid for.
You lied to me.
I hid it under the whispering tree.
You have lied to me.
It's ours Ada.
We paid for that money with eight years of our lives.
It's ours.
What was the price of the book?
What?
A week or so ago Mrs. Stanley.
Well how much is on the books now?
$1.43.
I'll take care of it.
We'll be leaving.
Leaving?
Mrs. Stanley?
How much do you want for this here, Cheryl?
Fifty cents.
That bird of Stanley's what?
That's right. You know him?
Just didn't pay some.
Well, you must have collected some overdue bills or something
for the Miami and Free breakfast like that.
Well, you got that wrong. That never happens to me.
The Long Branch, they collect overdue bills in the Dodge House.
But today I open my mail and find that I'm any richer for it.
I'll throw the wildest party you ever saw in this town.
You know, Duck, that's what I like about you.
You never exaggerate.
Well, this whole happening happens. I'm about the only...
Who's that?
Well, that's Frank Gahr. He's a border troublemaker.
You suppose they're just writing through?
Well, they are, but they may not know it yet.
Duck, looks like you saved yourself the price for breakfast.
Morning, Virgil.
Morning, Mr. Gahr.
Morning, Virgil. Get out of here.
Where's he going?
Your wife's a good-looking woman.
She ain't here.
We know.
What?
We know.
I'm kind of disappointed.
Who's gonna go without giving me my share?
What are you talking about going?
Where's the money, Virgil?
I haven't got it. I haven't found it.
Well, you wouldn't go without it, that's for sure.
That's for sure.
I ain't going anywhere.
Gahr ain't going to fool with Virgil.
No sign of them kids.
Where are they?
What do you want with them?
My wife's in town getting supplies.
My kids are, I don't know, off playing somewhere.
And I told you, I haven't found that money.
Well, now hearing your wife say this, Levin,
seeing all them hoes you dug out of her house,
we just ain't about to believe you didn't find it.
I'll take a little time to soften you up.
Mister, after what I've been through,
you could kill me and I'd get two words out of you.
I don't want to say it.
When's your wife getting back?
I told you, I was coming back for my share.
Once the skin starts lifting off that little woman of yours,
you'll be giving it up.
I haven't found it.
I swear I haven't found it.
We'll be believing you by the time
she don't have the breath to have to scream.
If you think you're going to try something like that,
you'd better kill me first.
You'd better kill me first.
Where's the other one?
In the barn. He's dead.
You heard that?
It would have been a lot worse. I'm owing to your muffle.
Now Virgil, this thing's gone about far enough.
I'm going to bring Redmond out here
and you're going to tell him where that money is.
If you don't, I'll bring 50 men
and we'll tear this farm up inch by inch.
Make up your mind.
He's got no right to search my land.
It's your land. That's right.
I don't want no part of it.
It don't make no sense leaving.
Redmond was right.
I don't care if you're with me or not.
The money.
I did it for us.
So we could get out of Shacktown
so we could have a place of our own.
We've got it.
I worked for it.
We've got it without that money.
Give it back.
No, it was me. Found it. Me.
I did not.
You two quit it.
Where'd you get this?
I found it first, Pa.
Where?
I saw it first. Me.
I said where?
Well, we dug it from under the tree.
Where the swing is.
I heard you say you buried the money in saddlebags.
Is that one of the bags, Pa?
No!
I'll set more.
I'll set more.
I'll set more.
I'll set more.
Virgil?
I'm taking the boys.
I want you to do something for me.
Give it a name.
Whatever it is, whatever you call it.
What are you going to have if you haven't had these past weeks?
Ten powers, Ada.
I just want to know what I've been working for all these years.
I got eight years of my life buried here.
You took that time from me and from them.
And there's nothing you can ever do to give it back.
And there's nothing here that's ever going to make up for it.
I'm sorry.
Ada?
Where are you going?
I don't know.
Ada?
Ada!
Ada!
Ada!
Ada!
Ada, wait!
This is where he left off.
It sure enough is leather.
Was is more like it.
Eight years.
Was it worth it, Redmond?
Yes, it was, Marshal.
Ada!
Ada!
Ada, I...
I...
Ada!
Ada!
Ada!